Modern Project Toolbox
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The document outlines various collaborative decision-making strategies and workshops for stakeholder engagement and project management, emphasizing techniques such as stakeholder mapping, metric modeling, and event storming. Each method includes specific implementation steps and criteria for success, along with 'honourable mentions' of additional relevant practices. The overall focus is on enhancing communication, creativity, and effective decision-making in project environments.
Modern Project Toolbox
- 4. @INVIQA
- 6. Individuals & Interactions over Processes & Tools
- 12. General tips 4 Unconstrained space, Sticky Notes, Sharpies 4 Enforce conversation through Sticky Notes 4 Diverge / Converge 4 Collab artefacts & documentation
- 13. Decision Making Framework 1. Surface Context 2. Expose Constraints 3. Explore Options 4. Form Strategy to Deliver
- 14. 1. Context
- 17. Making it work 1. Invite stakeholders you know 2. Draw the layout 3. Name everyone worth naming 4. Arrange names accordingly 5. Decide engagement strategies
- 19. Metric Modelling
- 22. Making it work 1. Invite department owners or skilled reps 2. Brainstorm metrics that drive people (using color- coding) 3. Arrange metrics into hierarchy 4. Drive connections between meters 5. Prioritize and decide on monitoring
- 25. Making it work 1. Invite department owners or skilled reps 2. Blue-tack the roll of paper onto the wall 3. Describe the flow of events 4. Put the first event in the center 5. Ask people to fill the gaps
- 26. Honourable mentions 4 Stakeholder Interviews 4 Persona Development 4 Analytics & Data Mining 4 Feature Mapping 4 Brand workshops 4 User Journey Analysis
- 27. 2. Constraints
- 30. Legend 4 Red - catastrophic outcome 4 Yellow - scenario 4 Gray - root cause
- 31. Making it work 1. Invite department owners or skilled reps 2. Brainstorm catastrophic outcomes 3. Brainstorm scenarios 4. Identify root causes
- 34. Making it work 1. Invite Product Sponsor 2. Bring the Metric Map 3. Draw the layout 4. Ask people to move metrics into the layout 5. Limit metrics to 3-5 per milestone 6. Add readings
- 35. Skills Mapping
- 37. Legend 4 0 - What is it? 4 1 - Can Read 4 2 - Can Write 4 3 - Can Teach
- 38. Making it work 1. Invite department owners or skilled reps 2. Define the initiative or milestone you're working on 3. Brainstorm skills required to deliver it 4. Ask teams/employees fill their level
- 39. Honourable mentions 4 Initiative Mapping 4 Value Stream Mapping 4 Integration Mapping 4 Budget Workshop
- 40. 3. Options
- 41. Impact Mapping
- 43. Making it work 1. Invite Product Owner, allow stakeholders to dip in 2. Put the initiative or milestone in the center 3. Brainstorm actors 4. Brainstorm impacts 5. Prioritise actors/impacts 6. Explore capabilities enabling impacts
- 44. Event Storming
- 46. Legend 4 Yellow - event 4 Blue - command 4 Purple - rule
- 47. Making it work 1. Choose area to focus on 2. Invite department owners or skilled reps for that area 3. Blue-tack the roll of paper onto the wall 4. Storm events 5. Identify commands 6. Explore rules
- 48. Honourable mentions 4 Platform demos 4 Prototyping 4 Wire-framing
- 52. Legend 4 Blue - topic 4 Green - activity 4 Yellow - sticky note
- 53. Making it work 1. Invite Product Owner, allow stakeholders to dip in 2. Brainstorm activities 3. Arrange activities into the timeline, fill the gaps 4. Highlight topics 5. Brainstorm capabilities on the board 6. Plan the first release
- 54. Example Mapping
- 56. Legend 4 Yellow - story 4 Blue - rule 4 Green - example 4 Red - question without answer
- 57. Making it work 1. Ask Product Owner to prepare stories for the workshop 2. Invite three amigos (and UX and integration partners) 3. Ask Product Owner to map rules he is aware of 4. Start writing examples in "The one where ..." format
- 58. Honourable mentions 4 Demand Mapping 4 Estimation
- 59. That's a lot of time spent talking!
- 60. Costs of rewriting code over Costs of doing workshop
- 61. Feedback loops define software costs
- 62. Workshops are a cheapest way to close particular feedback loops
- 63. Thank you!